fluence
English
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editfluence (countable and uncountable, plural fluences)
- (obsolete) Fluency
- 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 139:
- a voluble and ſmart fluence of Tongue,
- (physics) A measure of particle flux (or that of a pulse of electromagnetic radiation)
Derived terms
editTranslations
editA measure of particle flux
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Etymology 2
editShortened form of influence.
Noun
editfluence (plural fluences)
- A magical or mysterious force; hypnotic power; energy.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 191:
- I don't say she would have done anything, if it had come to the point; but the fluence was on, and she got me hot.